Iris

Quick Facts

Award and Special Appearance: One-time-only performance for the 84th Academy Awards

The 84th Annual Academy Awards

Video

Photos

Photo by Kevin Fauguembergue

Behind the Scenes

Iris promo video

IRIS by Cirque du Soleil s a lyrical, fanciful, kinetic foray into the seventh art. Bringing together dance, acrobatics, live video, filmed sequences and animation, the show takes spectators on a fantastic voyage through the history of cinema and its genres, taking them into the heart of the movie-making process. From illustration to animation, black and white to colour, silent films to talkies, fixed shots to swooping camera movements, spectators witness the poetic construction/deconstruction of this art as an object and as a way of transcending reality.